InBlack wrote on Jul 2, 2013, 11:02:... A public trial where he would undoubtedly be found guilty would do much to discredit the surveilance state. Its a terrible sacrifice though...

He would never get a public trial. It would be held in one of those lovely secret courts, you know for terrorists. In the name of "national security" especially after the other revelations that have come up.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

a)proper hyperthreading support at the time when HT became popularb)Cleartype at the time when LCDs were massively gaining popularity

Windows 8 has nothing like that on it.

Well downloading a driver is good...for those "hardcore nerds" as it were. Most people can't install a printer without managing to hose the installation even with an 8 or 16 step sheet of paper.

Timer coalescing isn't a buzz word, rather the current implementation is meant to mean to fix the near-inevitable problems that IRQ and other interrupts have been having for the last decade and poor or no proper escalation of a device in the system bus. I'm guessing you either don't know, or didn't know about it. Including the various tools that "the nerds" used to use to bump various devices manually higher up on the timer and interrupt chain. Making it so that it's handled natively is a very good thing. And that's not even touching software handling for unique software assignments in the chain, or recovery states.

Advanced GPU recover again isn't a buzzword. Rather it stops the BSOD issues that GPU's had for quite a while. Fixed for the most part about 3 years ago, with the new WDDM overhead, and seems to be fully and completly invisible to the user in Win8 which is nice. Though *not* being told could mean you're missing something serious such as a failing GPU.

And while eDrive support or the phrase is indeed a buzzword, several of my friends who sell the bloody things up here in Canada at the wholesale level have seen a massive up-swing in sales since the massive NSA spying scandal hit. And people have been picking up Win8 to have native support for that which is interesting.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

Cutter wrote on Jul 1, 2013, 13:41:Got the main game for $8 several weeks back on GMG or Gamefly, can't recall which now. So I'd say hold off.

Yep, it's all over the place in terms of sales. I picked up the main game plus DLC for $15 off GMG about 6mo ago. I don't have any regrets on it either with 92hrs into it with just the world events and main campaign.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

Slashman wrote on Jun 29, 2013, 13:55:Wow...I used to think I wouldn't mind visiting Sweden someday...

About 14 years ago, a made a pretty good friend via IRC who lived there. Setup and deployed one of the first rural fiber networks in the country. It was bad then, it accelerated back about 5 years ago. He's since gone and left the country, and moved to Singapore. People think taxation is crazy in the US and Canada, when he left he was dropping around 63% of his paycheque yearly in taxes.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

While the latter is not a word (a quick dictionnary attack would fail), it is still less secure knowing how crack engine works as of today. But will that change?

True, also according to the rules of entropy, a long word phrase of nonsensical things that make sense to you, but not to dictionary/pass-phrase attacks is just as equally strong if not stronger as random alpha-numeric's that a computer especially GPU crackers are good at running against.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

DrEvil wrote on Jun 28, 2013, 01:38:The difference, I believe, is around account requirements. I believe in the past that while a Canadian developer could start a kickstarter project, they had to have a US bank account or the like.

To be perfectly honest that's not hard to get. Head to any TD Candatrust and say "I want to open an account at a US branch." Deposit $x monies.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 20, 2013, 21:19:The change they have about zero experience from kills, only from quests, seems HUGE. I understand the reasoning, but that seems potentially game breaking.

Well if you know what you're doing it's pretty easy to exp cap yourself out before act 3, and with that be overpowered even on the hardest setting. Something like this could make it very challenging.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken

Creston wrote on Jun 19, 2013, 23:33:Hmmm, I didn't remember it. Anyway, glad it's cancelled, since Ravenholm was the worst fucking part of HL2.

Really I loved it, probably because not only was annoying but it scared the hell out of me, and very few things do these days. But I understand the whole "fsking hate it" bit, especially after my 4th playthrough.

--"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." --H.L. Mencken